In Space, Nopony Can Hear You Scream
Chapter I - Brief Beginnings
The space-station was big, thought Silver, thank god there were cameras, or his friends would get lost. Silver was your average pony, except he worked in a space station in outer space. Nothing strange happened, just a normal space station with normal space ponies. Silver announced on the loud speaker,
“Will all ponies, I repeat all ponies report to the main hall for dinner time. Over and out.”
Silver watched the ponies trot from camera to camera. Silver eventually got hungry himself, so he continued to eat his salad. That was the normal procedure, ponies work, Silver watches out in-case any-pony is in a life threatening situation. Then he would tell them that dinner or lunch or breakfast was ready. Course, they didn’t know what the time was, so they we’re on a 4-6 hour timer. Everything was okay, until the cold, well, colder than usual, day of 18th February, 2047.
“Commander Greymane, we have found a small collection of eggs, should we take them in for research?” Private Buck asked the Commander.
“Yes, give them to the science department and they’ll, well, research it.” Greymane said simply.
Silver saw the private run the eggs to the science department on a tray. He watched the science department, for he was concerned about the eggs. What happened next frightened the life out of Silver, the eggs hatched and little spiders with long legs and a tail jump up at the scientists and ripped their masks of. Then they latched themselves onto the scientists’ faces and the scientists had, from what Silver gathered, dead.
“SOLDIERS, REPORT TO THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT HEAVILY ARMED, I REPEAT, SOLDIERS REPORT TO THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT HEAVILY ARMED!” Silver shouted down the mic.
Silver saw the soldiers wearing their armor run to the science department, like Silver had commanded. The soldiers/guards entered the room cautiously, as nothing this serious has come up before. There was a cracking, like bones cracking, then they saw blood dribble down to there hoofs and black ponies with no eyes, black scaly skin, a long, sharp tail, and teeth that could shred a pony to bits. They stared at the guards through the pitch black darkness. The video went all static-y. He looked at the camera which was pointing towards the end of the corridor. Blood spilled out of the room, deep crimson blood. Then, there was a black-out, Silver knew what to do in the case of a black-out, he grabbed his flashlight and attached it to the end of his pistol, which he kept in case of something like this. He opened his door slowly, and he flashed his light outside the door, to immediately find the alien pounce at him, he quickly closed the door again and closed it, with the alien on the other side. He heard it scratching on the door, it then eventually made a small hole. Silver was hoping this would happen, so he shot the alien until it was dead. Its blood burned the door even further and exhumed a gas. From what Silver could gather, its blood was acid. Silver felt scared, he had never been in this kind of situation before. Silver galloped down the dark corridors, and eventually found a small door; he immediately recognized it as medical room. He entered, and, thank the lord, there were other ponies there. He sat down, with every-pony else. Tired, Silver fell asleep.
Silver awoke several hours later to screaming and panic. The aliens had infiltrated the medical room. Silver galloped into the vent were he thought he would be safe. He had had a nice sleep, so Silver was alert. After crawling through the vents, he found the escape pods. He conjured up a plan; first, escape and travel back to earth, second, tell mission control about what has happened, third, travel back and rid of the infestation. Silver quickly, but quietly, exited the vent and proceeded towards the pods. He escaped without a sound and was on his way back to earth, which would only take about an hour. Once he was in earths orbit, Silver heard the familiar voice that was his good friend, and descendant of Stormwind, Pixel,
“Bit early, aren’t you? What happened?”
“Aliens… aliens attacked.” Silver replied, yawning slightly, “I came back to tell you, hopefully we could bring back a squad maybe?”
“Yes, yes I’ll ask General Zeus...” Pixel huffed, clearly not believing what he was hearing.
After a couple of minutes waiting, Pixel returned to the mic,
“General said yes, we have a crew awaiting your arrival and quick departure.”
“M’kay.” Silver replied.
Silver landed, exited the small escape pod, said hello then goodbye to every-pony, and then entered the huge space shuttle, greeted by the military/astronauts aboard the ship. The blasted off very noisily and entered space. Silver wrote in his old journal that he inherited from his brother, before he died mysteriously. The last entry was,
My crew have discovered an egg, we are not sure what it does, but we’re trying hard to find out what lays inside the egg
Then the pen must have flipped out or something, because the ink just trailed off to the corner of the page. Silver stared into the great black abyss known as space. A few hours later they arrived at the docking station in the space station. They landed with a bump and the doors opened.
“Alpha team, you go first, Beta team, you go after them and secure the perimeter, Gamma team, you stay here and hack the security cameras, that way you’ll be able to keep in touch with every-pony.” Explained the leader.
“Excuse me, mister leader guy, but the cameras broke down when the aliens attacked.” Silver piped up.
“Huh, well then… Gamma, you team up with Beta and secure the perimeter.” Replied the Leader with annoyance on his face.
The team followed there instructions as they were told, Gamma a tad unhappy as they were the hackers of the group. But, they had to follow orders. Every-pony turned on their radio transmitters; it also sent messages when the owner had died/been killed. There are currently 30 ponies active, and I shall not spoil the ending.
